Neal Mohan plays by the rules. After Stanford, he worked in consulting. For public appearances, he almost always wears a blazer—black or blue. In workplace chat, he’s known for his academic approach—think probing, astute questions as opposed to memes.
Now he’s taking his khaki slacks and understated demeanor to YouTube’s corner office as its new CEO, replacing longtime YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki. “He has a wonderful sense for our product, our business, our creator and user communities, and our employees,” Wojcicki wrote of Mohan in her departure note, listing the disparate, and at times conflicting, parts of the $29 billion YouTube empire that Mohan inherited on February 16.
